12-letter words containing u, n, s
- disgruntling — Present participle of disgruntle.
- disguisement — Disguise (deceptive appearance).
- disgustingly — causing disgust; offensive to the physical, moral, or aesthetic taste.
- dishonouring — Present participle of dishonour.
- disillusions — Plural form of disillusion.
- disingenuine — (proscribed) Disingenuous.
- disingenuity — (obsolete) disingenuousness.
- disingenuous — lacking in frankness, candor, or sincerity; falsely or hypocritically ingenuous; insincere: Her excuse was rather disingenuous.
- disinvoltura — Self-assurance; lack of constraint.
- disjunctions — Plural form of disjunction.
- disjunctives — Plural form of disjunctive.
- disjunctures — Plural form of disjuncture.
- disputations — Plural form of disputation.
- disquisition — a formal discourse or treatise in which a subject is examined and discussed; dissertation.
- dissolutions — Plural form of dissolution.
- distress gun — a gun fired at one-minute intervals as a signal of distress.
- distributing — to divide and give out in shares; deal out; allot.
- distribution — an act or instance of distributing.
- disturbances — Plural form of disturbance.
- disturbingly — upsetting or disquieting; dismaying: a disturbing increase in the crime rate.
- dna sequence — the order of base pairs in a section of DNA
- do one's nut — to be extremely angry; go into a rage
- dockominiums — Plural form of dockominium.
- dodecagynous — (of a plant) having eleven or twelve pistils
- dodecandrous — (of a plant) having twelve stamens
- dolorousness — The quality of being dolorous.
- doubtfulness — of uncertain outcome or result.
- dreadfulness — The characteristic of being dreadful.
- dreadnoughts — Plural form of dreadnought.
- dreamfulness — the quality of being full of dreams
- droughtiness — Dryness of the weather; lack of rain.
- duck-shoving — the evasion of responsibility by someone
- dulcet tones — People often use the expression dulcet tones to refer to someone's voice.
- duncan smith — (George) Iain. born 1954, British politician; leader of the Conservative Party (2001–03); secretary of state for work and pensions (2010–2016)
- duplications — Plural form of duplication.
- dust counter — any instrument used to measure the size and number of dust particles per unit volume in the atmosphere.
- dysfluencies — disfluency.
- dysfunctions — Plural form of dysfunction.
- easter bunny — rabbit: brings chocolate eggs
- eating house — a restaurant or other place where one can eat
- echinococcus — any of a number of tapeworms of the genus Echinococcus whose larvae are parasitic in humans and domestic animals.
- echo sounder — a sonar instrument that uses echolocation to measure depths under water.
- educatedness — the quality of being educated
- educationese — the jargon associated with the field of education.
- educationist — a specialist in the theory and methods of education.
- effusiveness — unduly demonstrative; lacking reserve: effusive greetings; an effusive person.
- egads button — a switch that triggers the destruction in flight of a malfunctioning missile.
- ejaculations — Plural form of ejaculation.
- electrotonus — the change in the state of irritability and conductivity of a nerve or muscle caused by the passage of an electric current
- eleemosynous — Describes a gift or donation made as an act of charity or almsgiving.